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Originally Posted by aclee
If the study focused only on Children adopted from Foster care, how can they be sure that the findings are as a result of being a transracial adoptee, and not from being in foster care, or for what happened to the child that placed them in foster care (abuse, neglect, etc)
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A fair point and one I hope/assume they tried to address in the study. But it is also true that a number of children adopted from foster care are placed as infants and there may be little or no history of abuse. (Most, however, are born with prenatal drug and/or alcohol exposure.) I realize that this is purely anecdotal, but I know a lot of families doing fost-adopt and the majority had children placed with them at under 1 year old. Often, it is apparent immediately that the birth parents are not able to parent (or need services to help them become able to parent) so the children are removed right from the hospital. In our case, while the process is very different for US, for Daniel his adoption will function very much like a closed adoption.
For what it's worth, with the transracial adoptees we spoke to in our training as well as our nieces adopted from Korea (currently in their 20's) their experiences pretty much mirrored the study's findings.